Privacy Policy

Last Updated and Effective Date: January 1, 2023

Fast Growing Trees (“we”, “us”, or “our”) values your privacy.  We are committed to respecting your privacy.  We have developed this Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) to describe how we may collect information about you as a website visitor or customer through your interactions with us on our website www.fast-growing-trees.com (the “Site”), how we collect the information, how we use the information that we collect, and how and under what circumstances we disclose that information.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE USES OF INFORMATION DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE OR SUBMIT INFORMATION TO US.

This Site is operated by us from the United States and is designed for and intended only for users from the United States.

We may change this Privacy Policy. The “Last Updated and Effective Date” legend at the top of the page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised.  Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site.

When you visit the Site or submit information to us through the Site, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

By providing us with your contact information, you agree to receive informational emails about your order and specials from, as well as from our related companies. You may opt out of receiving future emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” button on the bottom of any email.

Definitions

“Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. “Personal information” does not include: (i) publicly available information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern; or (ii) information that is deidentified or aggregate consumer information.  

“Sensitive Personal Information” means Personal Information that reveals information such as: (a) social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; (b) account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; (c) precise geolocation; (d) racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; (e) the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless we are the intended recipient of the communication; and (f) genetic data.  Sensitive Personal Information includes the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer, Personal Information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health and Personal Information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation.  Sensitive Personal Information that is publicly available is not considered Sensitive Personal Information or Personal Information.

1. Information We Collect

Listed below are the categories of Personal Information that we collect.  Please note that we may not collect everything listed below from each individual.  

A. Identifiers, which includes information that personally identifies you when you voluntarily request information from us or supply information through the Site, including your name, email address, mailing address, zip code, and phone number, as well as other information we may collect about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect through our Site. For example, we may collect information about you from sources such as social media, our business partners, vendors, subcontractors, other advertising companies and publicly available sources. If you choose to login to the Site with your social media profile, you will receive prompts requesting access to specific user data. The information we receive from social media services depends on your privacy settings on the applicable social media service.

B. Commercial Information, which includes information about items you viewed or purchased from us.

C. Internet or Other Network Activity Information, including “Usage Data”, such as the type of browser or operating system you use, your IP address, or the domain name of the website from which you linked to the Site, the activity of your browser when you are viewing the Site; your site path; and the time you come to the Site. In general, we gather Usage Data about all of our users collectively, and not on an individual basis, for purposes such as determining which parts of our website users access most frequently. If we link Usage Data with Personal Information in a way that renders the Usage Data personally identifiable, we will treat it as Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. 

D. Geolocation Data, such as your IP address.

E. Audiovisual Information, including recordings of telephone or chat conversations with our representatives.

F. Inferences Drawn from Personal Information, including demographic and psychographic, as well as inferences based on purchase and browsing behavior.

G. Financial/Account Information, including your payment information (such as your credit or debit card number and expiration date, PayPal account information or gift card information), login credentials (your username and password created when you sign up for an account with us).

2. Uses of Information – Purposes

We may use your Personal Information as follows:

A, To provide and deliver products and fulfill your orders;

B. To establish and manage business relations with you;

C. To respond to inquiries, requests and comments from you;

D. To operate, improve and personalize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;

E. To communicate special offers, promotions and information about our company and service offerings to you via email or to your mailing address, if you have provided one;

F. To publish public product and customer reviews submitted by you;

G. To send you newsletters and information about products, services and promotions of our business partners and affiliates;

H. For customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities;

I. To prevent or investigate activity we think may be potentially illegal, unlawful or harmful;

J. For archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the services;

K. To better understand how you access and use the Site, for the purposes of trying to improve the Site, diagnose problems, administer our Site and respond to user preferences;

L. To provide relevant advertising, as well as content and product recommendations;

M. To enforce our other applicable policies; and

N. We may use the Usage Data that we collect:

1. to operate, improve, find errors in and personalize the Site;
2. to recognize returning website visitors and improve user experience;
3. to provide customer service, and to detect, prevent and mitigate fraudulent or illegal activities; and
4. to learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see.